Zaryadye Park is a 10-hectare recreational area built on a heretofore private commercial land of the Kitai-Gorod district in the heart of Moscow city beside the Moscova river. It is surrounded by the most famous landmarks like the Kremlin, the Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral, in a sense completing the trail of the city’s tourist hot-spots. Needless to say, the park, with its multi-pronged programme as a nature park, a recreation hub, a public plaza, social space, cultural amenity and educational apparatus, became an instant hit with visitors. The fact that this land, though private, has hosted historically embedded structures like the Soviet era’s colossal Hotel Rossiya and an incomplete Stalinist skyscraper in the past creates its own aura of significance for the plot’s current designation as a public space which occupies 25% of downtown Moscow.